This is actually a comment on the XPath grammar. These 3 literals need to be defined as numeric literals in section 3.1.1. All the best, Ashok > -----Original Message----- > From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-qt-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Colin > Paul Adams > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:23 AM > To: public-qt-comments@w3.org > Subject: [F&O] INF, -INF and NaN - literals? > > > 15.4.2.1 Shows an example: > > fn:avg((INF, -INF)) returns NaN. > > Are INF, -INF and NaN supposed to be literals of type > xs:double, as is implied by this example (at least, that's > the inference I draw)? > Because the grammar for literals does not include them. > Elsewhwere I can only find mention of them as special string > values for the xs:double constructor. > > My XPath parser currently parses these expressions as > child::INF etc. Clearly I have a problem with the > interpretation of the grammar. > -- > Colin Paul Adams > Preston Lancashire > > >Received on Friday, 14 January 2005 09:00:30 UTC
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